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Unlike the Fortran statement which is pronounced `jo toe`.

> almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk Is this underselling the role of Self in JS’s prototype-based object system, or saying that a prototype-based object sys…

Sure, but that's just lending you a computer at that point, unless they expect you to cover the depreciation cost or something when returning it.

Seven might disagree.

> They would also give you a PC in agreement for continued employment for N years. Do you mean that in exchange for accepting a PC, he had to agree to a multiple-year enforced cont…

This is excellent!

I am available to not build wind turbines at a substantial discount.

Very few of the MSP430s actually use FRAM, last I checked -- it's limited in both size and speed. (My understanding is that the FRAM speed is substantially better than Flash speed,…

No, someone else has it. It's a zero-sum game.

Shouldn't a Fathom have a six foot bed, by definition?

It's not gone. It was just transferred in payment to someone who understood the rules of the game better.

NAND hasn't been scaling great lately. It seems like PCM or MRAM would both be better fits.

> I lose all of the fun in learning to be chef. A great steak deserves the respect of preparing it the best, most consistent way you can. For me, that's a reverse sear. Do somethin…

Reverse sear over sous vide -- moisture is the enemy of crust. Cheap knock off a Big Green Egg with hardwood charcoal can get to 650°F or so pretty quick, and does an amazing job o…

Order placed. I respect that you're doing a single variant up front, and I understand the business challenges and risks of going wide on a niche product like this... but as a singl…

> "probably only 20% chance we all die" Bad news for you -- there's a 100% chance we all die. Sorry to be the one to tell you.

I think this is kind of my point -- there's no way to develop that level of nuance in a movie. The options are to take way more time (see Silo), to do a crappy job (see... almost e…

Define. If you're asking would I pay $470 - $2400 for an (e-beam?) lithography machine capable of making a fully-custom digital IC for But I somewhat doubt your ability to deliver.…

The most recent Dune movies pull off the incredible feat of being a better telling of the tale than the book, but only if you already know the tale from the books. They’re not begi…

I run about 50 Philips Hue lights and I’ve replaced 3 in six years, so definitely not as reliable as the L-Prize lights, but not awful. The L-Prize bulbs are built like tanks… when…

Every Philips L-Prize bulb I bought in 2012 is still working. Some have been on about 30% of the time since purchase. A few have been dropped multiple meters onto concrete; oops. W…

> But when I need to write code in areas I'm less confident about, I'll let AI take the reins and the do a thorough review myself. I see this mindset a bunch, and I just don’t get …

> Human-level AGI is by definition able to take away all human jobs. What definition is this? At best it would be able to take jobs that currently rely on human intelligence. There…